Hi Roland
This can hardly be regarded as covert if you knew they were going to do it.
Anyway surveillance within a domestic premise is not permitted for
Local authorities.
Alan
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Quoting Roland Perry <[log in to unmask]>:
> In message
> <[log in to unmask]>, at
> 09:18:45 on Thu, 5 Aug 2010, "Bradshaw, Phillip"
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> Last year I occupied two houses for a period of eight weeks during a
>> staggered move. As far as I was concerned the one I 'lived in' was the
>> one with the lower Council Tax band so I had the empty property relief
>> on the other. That was the only deciding factor which seemed relevant to
>> me ....
>
> This happened to me five years ago (I was moving from rented, into a
> purchased house that I was doing up). The rule is, strictly, that a
> house must be completely unoccupied, with no furniture at all, to get
> the exemption. And guess what - the council will perhaps send round a
> snooper to peer in the windows and check.
>
> I wonder if this counts as 'directed surveillance'? It is, according to
> a lawyer on another list I subscribe to. I wonder if Poole have
> reviewed/stopped this practice too?
>
> In my case the chap had a wasted journey, because he only arrived after
> I'd fully moved (and I'm sure after I'd told the council's other hand
> that this had happened, and the other house had been fully signed over
> to the next occupant).
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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